Quotes about Adversity

We can't always fix our circumstances, but we can fix our minds on God. We can do that.

Even when people turned on Jesus, He didn't let a goodbye turn Him into someone He was never meant to be

The breaking of us has actually been the making of us . . . the God-strengthened us He could use.

Without challenges and changes people tend to grow increasingly distant from God and resistant to His ways.

Heartbreaking seasons can certainly grow me but were never meant to define me.

I can't control the things that happen to me each day, but I can control how I think about them.

The first line grabs me by the throat. "Therefore we do not lose heart." Somebody knows how not to lose heart? I'm all ears. For we are losing heart. All of us. Daily. It is the single most unifying quality shared by the human race on the planet at this time. We are losing—or we have already lost—heart.

This is the time for a young man to stop saying, "Why is life so hard?" He takes the hardness as the call to fight, to rise up, take it on.

The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.

You were born into a savage war.

Women who are stunningly beautiful are women who have had their hearts enlarged by suffering.

Dear friend, this fear is a mighty powerful force.